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Thirteen years ago a Japanese said that in Britain the women are at war with the men and the men don't fight back. He asked if I agreed. I did.
If men don't fight back it's not a war, it's a wa-lkover.
My complaint of 10 June 1977 to the European Commission of Human Rights about foreign and Commonwealth men being allowed to live and work in the UK through marriage was a preemptive strike. I knew the opposition was gearing up to take their case to the ECHR. Which they duly did - and were successful on 11 May 1982.
In Japan the decision to allow foreign men to live and work there through marriage was taken in 1982. The law came into effect on 1 January 1985.
This may give the impression of equality.
But like is not being compared with like.
Japan is bigger than the UK. The Japanese language is a protection; it is difficult and distinct. The Japanese do not have people from many different and distant countries assembling on the Eurasian mainland trying to get across. (Instead, they have their cousins - the Chinese.) Nor do they have soldiers dying in far and distant lands.
Only the UK had a Commonwealth Immigration Act, brought into effect on 1 July 1962, after a deliberate delay to allow as many Comonwealth citizens as wanted to to enter the place. This resulted in a rush of young men.
It's a weak Pound to a strong Euro that, with rare exceptions, the people in, and heading for, the Channel ports targeting the UK today are, likewise, young men.
History matters: Britain is the mother of feminism.
People in transnational (outside the EU) marriages are often in a privileged position, because they have a choice of two countries in which to live.